Category: global surgery

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Impact of Narrative Medicine in Surgery

31 Jan 2024

 By: Raslina Shrestha, MD “We can make the world a better place, one story at a time.”- Lisa Gerber  A revelation unfolded during my shifts in the burn ward in Nepal. As the patie...

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THE MATCH EQUATION: AN IMG’S PERSPECTIVE

11 May 2023

by: Anjani H Turaga, IMG The day starts at 5 am on an unusually cold morning in Los Angeles, where we see our protagonist, an IMG (International medical graduate) brushing her teeth furiously, trying...

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How summer schools can fill the gap in Global Surgery knowledge of medical students and surgeons

23 Sep 2021

By Gabriela Azevedo Sansoni Global Surgery is a hot topic, but is it often part of formal curricula for medical students and surgical trainees?  A lot of papers have been published calling attention...